July 24, 2009

Vastu Shanti

Recently I received an invitation for Vastu Shanti.....the invitation was e-mailed ..and it was invariably in English....Subject line read...'Invitation for House Warming'....now Vastu Shanti is a Marathi word which means to cool off the house...whereas housewarming is exactly opposite...two words seemingly the same and having different etymological meaning....
and this isn't all....for vastu shanti we perform 'havan' in our house...thus we warm the house...strange our Gods require warmth to be 'Shant'....pretty confusing...

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  1. :) Nice post...

    In 'vastu shanti' also the house get warmed.. so maybe 'housewarming' is not a very incorrect term after all..

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